Black is beautiful. LOOK AT US!
Robin Massengale, Washington, DC. This country was founded on a profound falsity the vestiges of which remain today. That falsity? That whites are superior and...
CHANGE COMES FROM DEEP WITHIN YOURSELF!!
Danielle Rosati, Hauppauge, NY. I am tired of being blamed for blacks feeling not good enough. If you feel a certain way it’s within yourself....
White people, it’s not about you.
Jaqui, Bremerton, WA. So often, when having a conversation about race white a white person they are unable to step outside themselves. They are either...
Emanicipation is still just a word
Winfrey Young, Atlanta, GA. Emancipation did not reinstate self-esteem, justice, dignity or reality. Freed slaves were not endowed with freedom to love or with pride...
I am more than my skin
Lisa Gullion, Nocross, GA. I only look white, I am a high percent of Cherokee (whom were murdered by the dozens for land), I am...
We are HUMANS, NOT COLORS
Nik Parttridge, TN. I am classified as White/Caucasian because of how I look. This does NOT mean that I am the same people who enslaved...
When good men do nothing…
Courtney Elizabeth Columbus, OH I get really bothered when white people say “but I didn’t own slaves!” or “my ancestors weren’t here during America’s beginnings.”...
Couldn’t convince grandmother slavery was immoral
Denise Pierce, Sterling, VA. My grandmother who was born in NC in 1901 and lived to be 105 tried to instill in me a love...
I didn’t own any slaves.
David Murray Springfield, IL Racism is real – all around. Frankly, I am tired of being considered a racist just because I am a white...
America is not for black people!
Taylor Valdosta, GA Systematic racism exits and is targeted towards blacks. It’s in the government and in schools, Its always and will always continue to...
But I never owned any slaves.
John Staunton, VA It is factually true that I never owned slaves. But while this statement is true for every American person of any race,...
My ancestor might have owned yours.
Kathy Miner Madison, WI My father’s mother’s family proudly claims an ancestor who signed the Declaration of Independence. At some point, as an adult, I...
I apologize to Sue’s family.
Carole Woods Sequim, WA Sue worked for my grandmother without pay in Sumter, South Carolina, from her teenage years in the early 20th century until...
No (one) owned slaves. They owned people.
Ymani Philadelphia, PA The moment we begin thinking of enslaved Africans as people and not as slaves, enslavement as human trafficking, not the slave trade,...
Ambivalent, because my family owned slaves.
Charles H. Sides Westminister, MA I always felt superior because my great-great grandfather Sides was conscripted against his will or support into the Confederate Army,...
My great great Grandfather saved you!
Michael Smith Waco, TX I am sick and tired of being called a racist because I am a white, young, male. My great great Grandfather...
